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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:03:52 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Our Endless Numbered Days by Jeannehttps://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/our-endless-numbered-days/#comment-20304
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:03:52 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5941#comment-20304So even the title’s been done!
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 17:12:43 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5941#comment-20301When I first saw the title of your post, I thought “Is she writing about the lovely sophomore album by Iron & Wine?” Alas, no. It’s just what sounds to be a depressing novel with one trick up its sleeve. Rats.
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:16:42 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5941#comment-20300Don’t get me started. The mother was a once-famous pianist, and he took their child while she was off playing a concert tour, so on the scale of cliche notes, I’d say this author hit 7/7.
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 15:25:58 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5941#comment-20299Ugh. I’d be disappointed by that one too. How much more cliche can you get?
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:31:35 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5941#comment-20298Yeah, despite saying it’s transparent (which it totally is) the twist had me hoping that something more interesting was going to happen. There was a scene with potential, where the person the girl had made up didn’t appear, and I thought we would all have a realization. But no.
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:27:22 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5941#comment-20297This one tries to have a twist, but it’s pretty transparent. If the twist had involved some kind of new understanding, that would have been one thing, but it merely covers up the girl’s desperation, making it possible for her family and friends to see her as the same person who went away.
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Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:20:07 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5941#comment-20296I’m tickled to hear that another reader occasionally throws a book across the room! And I agree that Jodi Picoult would make a person do it–I read a number of her books a few years ago, and found them immensely readable, compelling, focused on contemporary issues, and utterly unsatisfying at actually saying anything useful about those issues.
It’s not that I think fiction must have a use, but that she sets the book up to say something useful and then she DOESN’T SAY IT.
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Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:53:53 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5921#comment-20291Ok, maybe Doomsday Book too.
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Wed, 07 Dec 2016 02:06:09 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5921#comment-20288I liked Doomsday Book, which is also by her. I didn’t like any of the rest of them (and I read a lot of them).
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Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:47:00 +0000http://necromancyneverpays.wordpress.com/?p=5941#comment-20285Oooo man… But I am like you. Sometimes a bit naive. Or, because I can NEVER see the ending like everyone else, in the off chance I do, I never believe what I am thinking. And in a situation like this, I would be sad such a well-known writer couldn’t come up with something more original.
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